Thus licensing would be similar to Apple’s. At least I can find no links nor licenses (the fake ENCOM site that is)Īfter I found the ENCOM timeline it is now clear to me that MCP was a mainframe only product and that Flynn OS was developed in the late 80’s thus it must have been based on BSD Unix not GNU/Linux. ENCOM OS/12 is more locked up, non-free or non-open then even Apple OS/X. It was a significant breakthrough in processing power and chip-to-chip communication. ENCOM brought its first mainframe online in 1980. Over time, ENCOM arose to become one of the worlds leading computer companies. That is ENCOM does NOT distribute the code nor allow access of any kind. ENCOM was founded on July 22, 1972, in a garage by Walter Gibbs. Sam breaks into the control room and swaps out the OS-12 master file so that. ( Chill there are NO spoilers here ) Thus the core of ENCOM OS/12 is Flynn OS thus the violation of the GPL. 1989: Kevin Flynn, now CEO of ENCOM, tells his seven year-old son, Sam.

Edward Dillinger : OS-12 is the most secure operating system ever released. Now it was true that when Flynn ran ENCOM he was on the verge of releasing the new OS as a free operating system, but then he disappeared. I mean, um, ENCOM OS-12 Richard Mackey : This year we put a 12 on the box. What you can clearly see is that the MCP root terminal is running “top” and accepts UNIX commands. I seems that Flynn’s company ENCOM has produced ENCOM OS/12 which is basically Flynn OS a sightly newer version of Tron’s MCP (Master Control Program). I got to see Tron Legacy over the weekend and was one of many FOSS supporters to find the laughable irony that Disney of all companies would have Kevin Flynn ( Jeff Bridgs ) give a speech that Computer Operating Systems should be free and open.

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